Dataware for data-driven transformation

Contributor: Dale Kim

Dale Kim is the senior director of products/solutions at Arcadia Data. His background includes a variety of technical and management roles at information technology companies. While Dale’s experience includes work with relational databases, much of his career pertains to nonrelational data in the areas of search, content management, NoSQL, and Hadoop/Spark, and includes senior roles in technical marketing, sales engineering, and support engineering. Dale holds an MBA from Santa Clara University, and a BA in computer science from Berkeley.

Blog Posts by Dale Kim

November 01, 2018 | By Dale Kim,Ronak Chokshi

If you're not familiar with the concept of data warehouse optimization (DWO), it's a strategy for identifying the "right" workloads for your data warehouse. In other words, it's making sure you're not allocating data warehouse...

February 07, 2017 | By Dale Kim

In this week’s Whiteboard Walkthrough, Dale Kim, Sr. Director of Industry Solutions at MapR, describes how MapR addresses the challenge of providing a persistence tier to containers in big data settings. Dale describes a new technology to support Docker...

November 10, 2016 | By Dale Kim

It’s well understood that businesses that leverage their data are more likely to be successful in their respective industries. By leveraging big data, businesses can boost their competitive advantage, improve their decision-making process, and increase...

August 11, 2016 | By Dale Kim

With stories of the thefts of millions of credit card records and sensitive employee data at some of the world’s largest companies and government agencies dominating recent headlines, it’s not surprising that organizations are doubling down on security...

August 10, 2016 | By Dale Kim

Dale Kim, Sr. Director of Industry Solutions at MapR, describes the monitoring capabilities of the MapR Converged Data Platform, which easily give you a single view of all cluster operations. Leveraging popular open source technologies, the monitoring...

June 20, 2016 | By Dale Kim

Is there a case to be made for big data for security analytics? The answer is an unqualified “yes.” In fact CSO Magazine called cyber security “the killer app” for big data analytics. Meanwhile a recent study pegged the compound annual growth rate of...

June 01, 2016 | By Dale Kim

In this week's Whiteboard Walkthrough, Dale Kim, Director of Industry Solutions at MapR, explains the architectural differences between MapR-FS (the MapR File System) and the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).
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April 13, 2016 | By Dale Kim

Editor's note: In this week's Whiteboard Walkthrough, Dale Kim, Sr. Director of Industry Solutions at MapR, discusses three examples of how the auditing capabilities in the MapR Converged Data Platform are beneficial for your big data environment...

August 27, 2015 | By Dale Kim

Every week, there are reports about new data breaches at organizations ranging from retailers to government agencies to, ahem, “dating services.” In fact, the theft of sensitive data costs global industry over $445 billion each year. Even the most robust...

August 04, 2015 | By Dale Kim

Every business has some kind of database. It’s right up there with word processors and spreadsheets as essential business software. Relational databases are one of the most popular types—but as useful as they are, they’re not necessarily the best for...

July 31, 2015 | By Dale Kim

This blog post is the final post of a four-part series, and is based on the Radiant Advisors white paper titled “Driving the Next Generation Data Architecture with Hadoop Adoption” which examines the emergence of Hadoop as an operational data platform...

June 25, 2015 | By Dale Kim

This blog post is the third post of a four-part series, and is based on the Radiant Advisors white paper titled “Driving the Next Generation Data Architecture with Hadoop Adoption” which examines the emergence of Hadoop as an operational data platform...

June 18, 2015 | By Dale Kim

_This blog post is the second post of a four-part series, and is based on the Radiant Advisors white paper titled “Driving the Next Generation Data Architecture with Hadoop Adoption” which examines the emergence of Hadoop as an operational data platform...

June 02, 2015 | By Dale Kim

This blog post is part of a four-part series, and is based on the Radiant Advisors white paper titled “Driving the Next Generation Data Architecture with Hadoop Adoption.”
As you probably know, Apache Hadoop was inspired by Google’s MapReduce and Google...

March 18, 2015 | By Dale Kim

Editor's Note: In this week's Whiteboard Walkthrough, Dale Kim, Director of Industry Solutions at MapR, gets you up to speed on Apache Hadoop and NoSQL. He talks about the similarities and differences between the two, but most importantly how...

December 09, 2014 | By Dale Kim

Don’t ask your data warehouses to handle tasks they shouldn’t handle. They were never intended to be an all-purpose processor of structured, unstructured, and semi-structured information. Dealing with data being flung at them constantly from an ever-growing...

December 09, 2014 | By Dale Kim

This blog post was jointly written by Cloudera (Justin Kestelyn), MapR (Dale Kim), and Twitter (Julien Le Dem) – all contributing companies to the Apache Parquet project:
Since its founding in July 2013, Apache Parquet (incubating) has taken the Apache...

October 15, 2014 | By Dale Kim

Previous posts in this series provided insights about nine good reasons why customers choose MapR: from security to performance and TCO to ease of integration. All this is due to the superior architecture of the platform and the time and diligence MapR...

October 14, 2014 | By Dale Kim

In this blog series, we’re showcasing the top 10 reasons customers are turning to MapR in order to create new insights and optimize their data-driven strategies. Here’s reason #2: MapR provides world record performance for Hadoop.
Bruce Lindsay, venerable...

October 09, 2014 | By Dale Kim

In this blog series, we’re showcasing the top 10 reasons customers are turning to MapR in order to create new insights and optimize their data-driven strategies. Here’s reason #7: MapR provides the top-ranked NoSQL key-value database for current offering...

September 15, 2014 | By Dale Kim

At the Big Data Everywhere conference held in Israel, Atzmon Hen-Tov, Vice President of R&D of Pontis, and Lior Schachter, Director of Cloud Technology and Platform Group Manager of Pontis, gave an informative talk titled “Data on the Move: Transitioning...